Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

Fish have committed credit card fraud

if my parents had been on this wavelength in '84 I'd be named Sarah Connor Zuul Mariani

BALLOT RECOUNT: WORCESTER NEEDS YOUR HELP! An important recount is happening & we need recount observers! Jermoh Kamara lost by only 26 votes. This could significantly shift the incoming Council's actions & direction. Please sign up, even if for just one shift. worcindivis.short.gy/kamara-recount

Happy open enrollment everybody!! 🫠

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying

all kinds of guys in this country with too much money and no idea what to do with it and not one will pay a john goodman impersonator to follow larry summers around with his blown-up epstein emails on a placard going "is this your homework, larry? is this your homework, larry? is this your homework,

It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics

Survivors are going to be feeling a lot of feelings today. I am holding survivors in my heart, today and always.

Your power shouldn't be shut off during government shutdowns when Republicans freeze the release of funds that help families pay for heating and cooling. My bill would push utilities to keep the heat on for working families who are being blocked from the help they deserve.

Just learned that my apartment qualifies for this program and I am excited to have a cheaper electric bill this winter!! The goal is to encourage more people to install electric heat pumps and move away from fossil fuels.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Today’s hike was a nice flat 5 miles at Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge on perhaps the last “hiking in a T-shirt” day of fall.

A🧵about Dr. Josh Fessel who spoke candidly with me about why he had to leave his dream job at NIH in this story out today about lives upended by the Trump's first 100 days. www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/t...

we deported a 13 year old www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years. We hear of a few, but most barely make the news. Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel. He was in perfect health when ICE detained him. He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

Commentary: I am a primary care physician in Boston, taking care of particularly sick and structurally marginalized patients in the heart of the city, writes Divya Manoharan. Many of the patients I worry most about are currently living with their families in emergency assistance shelters.

🧵My latest: An inside look at how the Trump admin has deployed shrouded budgetary maneuvers to undercut outbreak response, HIV treatment, dementia care & more across America. “No one thought this was possible or legal, but that is what’s happening." abcnews.go.com/Health/red-t...

In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out. Congrats to them for getting rid of them all! www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...

With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory. The details are horrifying. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...

Ocean State Job Lot announced that all food in its 17 Rhode Island stores is discounted by 20 percent until the federal SNAP program is fully reinstated. That includes coffee, tea, peanut butter, jam, cooking oils, spices, and hundreds of Bob’s Red Mill products.

I keep thinking about @alexsteed.bsky.social's regular reminders that Action is the best antidote for Despair and as such, I spent part of my weekend making veggie lasagnas for local community fridges. It felt so good to gather with a group of like-minded folks and do something for our neighbors.

Never in the history of the SNAP program - including during government shutdowns - has SNAP funding ever been suspended or only partially funded. While some funding is better than none, the Trump Administration has the means to FULLY fund this program and is CHOOSING not to. It's reprehensible.

Hiked to 3 different states today! (Tri-State Trail at Douglas State Forest)

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Next week Worcester neighbors lose their food assistance. 🫶 Donate FOOD CARDS $50 (or $25) increments from: Price Rite, Price Chopper, Compare Foods, Shaws Drop off:20 Cedar St.,or WCAC, 18 Chestnut St., Suite 500. 🫶 WooFridges: www.woofridge.org $: hcb.hackclub.com/donations/st...

That Tim Waltz transferred state funding and Maura Healey asked us to donate money tells us a great deal about the difference between them minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash. For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

We are standing with advocates across the country to say that hunger is a policy choice. USDA has the authority to sustain SNAP, just as it has in past shutdowns. Hungry people can’t wait.

The federal government is refusing to provide transparency and failing to use the contingency funds set aside for this exact purpose. The Trump Administration could stop this. Congress could stop this. If that inaction continues, the state must be prepared to step in to protect families from hunger.

⚠️ SNAP benefits do not have to be delayed in November as a result of the government shutdown. More than 1 million people in Massachusetts use SNAP to buy food each month, and families will feel the impact immediately if benefits stop. This crisis is preventable. #ProtectSNAP #SNAPmatters

SNAP supports our economy with more than $210M SNAP benefits spent monthly at 5,500+ retailers- this accounts for $1 of every $5 spent at MA grocery stores. Delaying funds would send economic shockwaves through our communities that we cannot afford.

This is an unprecedented situation- SNAP benefits have never been delayed due to a federal shutdown. Failure to issue SNAP on time will force residents to skip meals and go hungry, cause immense financial distress, and flood an already stretched thin emergency food system.

SNAP benefits are at risk of delay due to the fed gov't shutdown, threatening hunger for 655,000 low-income MA residents. Make Hunger History calls for urgent action at a rally Tues, 10/28, 12pm at the State House to demand leaders ensure Nov. SNAP benefits are issued on time.

If you think you know what is to be done, you should do it. No one has patience for you saying that other people must do what you won't do first.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

Look at this shit. #AbolishICE

If there was a US state of all the kids about to lose SNAP, it would have the same population as Oregon 4.2M children going hungry is the entire state of Wyoming going hungry, times seven It's everyone in Delaware without enough to eat, four times over It's two everyone in New Mexicos!

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Of course women don’t like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it’s the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pizza-thrower tank (a turtle assault vehicle with “the works”).

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's donkeys carrying lambs up the Italian Alps in special pouches.

Burlington MA ICE property owner Robert W. Murray has avoided accountability for code violations occurring inside his building. Exhibit A: Town of Burlington addresses a strongly worded letter to Murray re: code violations. But Murray never replies. ICE replies on Murray’s behalf. 1/2

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...